Overwatch Summer Event is now live, along with buffs and nerfs

With over than 50 new skins, emotes, voicelines, highlight intros, and other cosmetics, Blizzard Overwatch Summer Games 2018 event has now gone live. It includes 6 new Legendary Skins for Ana, Reinhardt, D.Va, Winston, Roadhog, and Zenyatta.

The Summer Games starts from today (10th of August 2018) AEST until 31st of August 2018 AEST.

The event returns with Lucio Ball and the competitive version of Copa Lucio Ball with a new arena added, the Busan Stadium.

Along with the event’s new cosmetics, a bunch of nerfs and updates to some heroes have also made it from the PTR to live:

Ana

Nano Boost

Now also instantly heals the target for 300 health

Range increased from 30 to 40 meters

Brigitte

Shield Bash

Cooldown increased from 6 to 7 seconds

Repair Pack

An option to control Brigitte’s Repair Pack targeting sensitivity has been added under Options > Controls > Brigitte

Doomfist

Rocket Punch

No longer impacts Symmetra’s teleporter

Now destroys Symmetra’s sentry turrets without stopping his movement

Hanzo

Lunge

Cooldown increased from 4 to 5 seconds

Lúcio

Crossfade

Aura radius increase from 10 to 12 meters

Sound Barrier

Temporary shields granted increased from 500 to 750

Mercy

Caduceus Staff

Healing beam reduced from 60 healing per second to 50 healing per second

Moira

Biotic Grasp

Passive energy regeneration rate increased from 2 per second to 2.4 per second